Performance

Paradisiac
A body-focused exploration, led by the flow of pleasure down a winding, treacherous path.

Artist:
Jai Leeworthy

Synopsis

Paradisiac is a body-focused exploration, led by the flow of pleasure down a winding, treacherous path.

In this project, performers take scans, measurements and documentations of their own bodies as the starting point to create performance. The work opens a discourse on the growing ways in which our private information is harvested and how our bodies become attached to the state and corporate machinery.

Like land surveyers for the Garden of Eden, we map sheltered ‘paradises’ on the land and our own bodies, noting their exclusive nature. Paradisiac is a shapeshifting queer, anarchic resistance against the seeds of virtual new borders, even as the obsolete ones make their final death throes.

Contact

Melbourne Fringe respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which we live, work, play and hold our festival. We pay our respects to the people of the Kulin Nations and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past and present.